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- Comment on Meta progression in roguelites was fun for a while, but it's starting to feel unrewarding 1 day ago:
Yeah I don’t really like the model where it starts basic and hard, and each failure makes it a little easier.
Feels like it would be more interesting if you started with high stats, and each successful run you had to remove or lower something. Sure, you won with 200 health but can you win with 100? Hades kind of had this alongside the upgrades as you go.
I didn’t like dead cells or rogue legacy that much because it felt like I would’ve won if I had grinded more, and that’s not what I want.
I feel like games are usually a mix of execution challenges and numbers challenges. In a pure action game or other games without progression (eg: chess) you win or lose from your decisions and input. But in numbers games, you win or lose based on the stats. There’s really no way cloud from the start of the original ff7 can defeat disc 3 bosses. The numbers just aren’t there.
Some rogue-lites feel like they’re trying to be execution games but have a less clear numbers check on top. Doesn’t always work for me.
I do really like the traditional rogue like Crawl: Stone Soup, though. No meta game aside from the occasional player ghost.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 for Nintendo Switch 2 likely axed, as Take-Two says it’s ‘paused’ development | VGC 2 days ago:
Is it like the other ones where it takes several hours until you start finding interesting guns and get cool powers?
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 3 days ago:
I’ve heard this but I haven’t taken the time to find a rom and emulator and get it working (on Linux)
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 days ago:
I was going to say diablo4 as well. Diablo1 and 2 were some of my favorite games in my youth, but I just don’t want to give blizzard any more money. Path of exile 1 and 2 are good for the same itch.
Also any console exclusives. Bloodborne? Would love to play. Not buying a console. New Zelda and Mario? Same.
- Comment on Democratic Upset in Deep Red Texas District Rattles Republicans 4 days ago:
Anyone who’s still a Republican is some combination of fool and monster.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 1 week ago:
…what? Go do something else instead of watching YouTube-style content then. Read a book. Take up knitting. Do crosswords.
You can live a full life without Internet videos.
- Comment on What challenge from a game isn't worth completing and what challenge from a game is worth completing? 2 weeks ago:
I didn’t do all the optional bosses in expedition 33. I finished the plot and was so powered up the story bosses didn’t even get a turn. But fighting the billion hp “dodge 13 hits in a row or die” just wasn’t fun for me.
- Comment on Rockstar baulks as a Charlie Kirk assassination mission is created in GTA Online, bans it and censors his name, but there's more out there 3 weeks ago:
Capitalism. The rich owner types don’t like this sort of thing, and they have a lot of power. They don’t really have coherent values except “in-group to protect, out-group to bind” and “no one tells me what to do. i tell you what to do.”
- Comment on Does anyone think people in Minnesota should radicalize others there to socialism? 3 weeks ago:
Honestly, probably yes. People are emotional people and a face to face conversation can be a big impact.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_canvassing is one take on it
- Comment on Does anyone think people in Minnesota should radicalize others there to socialism? 3 weeks ago:
Zohran had many volunteers knocking on doors and talking to people. He’s also charismatic, and focused on concrete actionable things.
It’s hard to get people mad about “let’s run buses on time”.
- Comment on Pet Peeves with Games? 3 weeks ago:
Broadly, where the optimal path is the boring or tedious path.
Imagine an action game where you fight monsters and get coins for defeating them. Coins can be exchanged to buy new moves, advance the plot, and so on. Basic game loop.
Now imagine that you get triple coins if you wear the red shirt when fighting red monsters. Every time you see a red monster, you could go into the menu, into equipment, into body armor, swap on the red shirt, exit all the menus, and kill the monster. Then repeat all that for blue shirt and blue monsters.
This is a made up example but some games do shit like that, where you have to do something tedious for a big payoff.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 3 weeks ago:
I don’t let the problem get that bad in the first place.
On my computer, I close the browser end of day and all the tabs go away. On my phone, it auto archives tabs I haven’t looked at in a week. I close those periodically, but a few I use as off brand bookmarks (eg: a recipe I like)
- Comment on I watched several videos on a Combine Harvester's inner workings 3 weeks ago:
To many “smart” people have stood up and taken the credit for hundreds of others and generations of work.
Like CEOs taking credit for all the work their engineers did.
- Comment on Switch 2 Sales Reportedly Struggled Over The Christmas Period 3 weeks ago:
I didn’t get one because it’s too expensive.
Steam deck was a little pricey but it has a backlog of games going back like 50 years, and I already have a large library. Plus the games are cheaper.
- Comment on Just say what you want! 4 weeks ago:
I’ve sent this to many coworkers.
I wanted to introduce a jar where every time you sent a useless “hello” message you had to put double whatever you put in last time (starting at $1). People are empty headed idiots maybe losing +$1000 will wake them up.
- Comment on Why does everyone here think they're autistic or ADHD? The memes all describe normal human foibles. 4 weeks ago:
I feel like online spaces like lemmy over represent some behaviors.
- Comment on A conservative think tank is suing Oregon over a new law that makes it illegal to impersonate a union representative 4 weeks ago:
The law allows union representatives to sue anyone for $6,250 if they can prove an individual falsely impersonated a union representative.
That is too small a fine.
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 4 weeks ago:
I’m not sure what you’re trying to ask but maybe this comic will be interesting anyway
- Comment on Do people actually believe those "gurus" on the internet that supposedly "give advice"? These seems very sussy and feel scam-adjacent, isn't it? 4 weeks ago:
People are idiots. They believe things that feel good.
- Comment on Evidence 4 weeks ago:
People believe based on feelings, not facts. That’s all it is.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 5 weeks ago:
I’ve read your post a dozen times and I’m confused.
Are you at the $5 million cap in this scenario? You’re certainly not going to waste away with $500k/year coming in, labor free.
Or are you closer to median income of like $80k, and thus have no funds for a big passion project?
Either way, you can always pool resources and form an organization of some sort. We don’t really want a ton of power collected in individuals. Especially not if the only reason they have that power is because they had money.
- Comment on How much money should one person realistically make or have? 5 weeks ago:
No one needs more than $5 million. That’s enough for a conservative investment portfolio to give you a mid six figure income without doing any labor. Watch TV all day and eat chips, still net six figures.
Maybe then no one can afford mega mansions and mega yachts, but I’m okay with that. We don’t need that much concentration of wealth.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
It kind of bothers me that people use “introvert” to mean like “crippling social anxiety and agoraphobia”.
Maybe it’s just online spaces accumulate more people who identify with those disorders, and “introvert” sounds nicer .
- Comment on handling strays 5 weeks ago:
Tabletop RPGs are a good and cost effective hobby. You can play DND with the free “SRD” rules posted online, but you won’t get the fancy pictures and all the extras.
There are other games like it that are even cheaper. My personal favorite is Fate. Free rules, only needs four six sided dice.
The main problem is finding a good group to play with. DND is mega popular so if you’re just looking for social, it’s a good starting point. If you’re not into fantasy, you can branch off into other games later.
- Comment on How Did DOGE Disrupt So Much While Saving So Little? The group’s biggest claims were largely incorrect, a New York Times analysis found. And its many smaller cuts added up to few savings. 1 month ago:
they are not stupid people but they always fall for and buy in on the dumbest aspects of the right.
That sounds like they are stupid people.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 1 month ago:
Apparently there’s a couple free games. Never played
100% Orange Juicemyself but a friend was super into it when it came out. - Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 1 month ago:
I think part of it is a lot of stuff goes on deep discount repeatedly. Like Overcooked is $2. That’s a steal. But I already have it. If this was my first steam sale, I’d be super excited about that.
- Comment on Steam winter sale is now live 1 month ago:
Nioh1 was pretty okay. Never finished it. Nioh2 is one of my favorites in the genre, and I play it like once a year. It’s an improvement in every way.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 month ago:
The data center haters are the strangest, to me. Because there’s this default assumption that data centers can never be powered by renewable energy
Opportunity costs
- Comment on ‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Maker Promises ‘Divinity’ Will Be ‘Next Level’ 1 month ago:
There’s a single mod that purports to convert the game to pathfinder 2e. I’m not sure if the balance isn’t to my taste or if I was doing something wrong, but my characters all had very low hit chances on their first attack. Missing isn’t fun for me
I believe it was this one: mod.io/g/baldursgate3/m/pathfinder2ndedition#desc…